Managing Connections for Data Assets

After you register a data source as a data asset in your data catalog, you should create a connection to your data asset to harvest it.

You can create multiple connections to your data source. To harvest a data asset, at least one connection is required. Depending on the data source types, you can use secrets in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault to store the password that you need to connect to the source using a connection. By using OCI Vault, you provide the OCID of the secret when specifying the connection details, so you don't have to enter the actual password when you create the data asset.

A vault is a container for keys and secrets. Secrets store credentials such as required passwords for connecting to data sources. You use an encryption key in a vault to encrypt and import secret contents to the vault. Secret contents are based64-encoded. Data Catalog uses the same key to retrieve and decrypt secrets while connecting a data asset to the data source. For more information about vault, key, and secret, see Overview of Vault. For information about copying the secret OCID and the required IAM policies, see Managing Vault Secrets and Required IAM Policies for using OCI Vault.

To set up and manage the connections for your data assets, see: